Category Archives: MyHospitals website

A welcome development: public disclosure of infection control performance of hospitals

March 20, 2012 – 8:50 am

The recent release of data about how well hospitals perform when it comes to ensuring staff wash their hands drew widespread media coverage. In the article below, Professor Lyn Gilbert, an infectious diseases physician and clinical microbiologist with a strong interest in preventing healthcare-associated infections, provides some of the wider historical context. *** Making sense of [...]

By Melissa Sweet | Also posted in evidence-based issues, Hospitals, infectious diseases, quality and safety of health care, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

A rather large wrap of recent Croakey articles: public health, health reform, media coverage of health and more

January 11, 2012 – 10:25 am

As previously mentioned, Croakey readers are welcome to sign up for (rather irregular) summaries of posts. If you’d like to join the mailing list, please send your email or leave it below. Here is the latest compilation, covering from 6 October – December 23, 2011. The latest readership figures are now also available, showing that [...]

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We need more action on hospital infections: expert

December 14, 2011 – 11:57 am

The Centre for Research in Critical Infection held a meeting recently at the University of Sydney, where the hazards of antibiotic resistance and barriers to infection control were key topics of discussion. Professor Lyn Gilbert, an infectious diseases physician and clinical microbiologist, described how public reporting of hospital infections is helping to focus health services [...]

By Melissa Sweet | Also posted in adverse events, Hospitals, infectious diseases, quality and safety of health care | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Health Reform Implementation Plan

September 7, 2011 – 1:28 pm

From the Office of Health Minister, Nicola Roxon….. The plan charting the path for national health reform implementation was released today by Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon.  ”The Implementation Plan shows how the benefits of health reform—increasing the sustainability of public hospitals, delivering unprecedented levels of transparency and accountability, less waste and significantly [...]

By Jennifer Doggett | Also posted in general practice, health reform, Hospitals, Medicare Locals, primary health care | Comments (1)

The health reform deal: what does it really mean?

August 5, 2011 – 12:46 pm

This article is republished from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library’s FlagPost blog. Dr Anne-marie Boxall writes: After nearly four years in government, an 18-month independent inquiry into the health system, a Prime Ministerial listening tour of the nation’s hospitals, several fraught Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meetings and one unsuccessful attempt, the federal Labor Government has [...]

By Melissa Sweet | Also posted in health financing and costs, health reform, Hospitals | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

How will MyHospitals be evaluated? We don’t know yet…

December 17, 2010 – 2:04 pm

Croakey has been running a series of articles on the new MyHospitals website, looking at how it should be evaluated, and how it might evolve in response to feedback. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has responded to Croakey’s questions on these matters below. It’s interesting that the details of the evaluation are still [...]

By Melissa Sweet | Also posted in health reform, Hospitals | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

What do we really want from OurHospitals?

December 17, 2010 – 10:59 am

Croakey has been wondering what the trend towards MyWebsites – like MyHospitals, MySchool, MySuper etc – says about where Australia is heading. Is there more to us than me, myself and mine? Would we feel differently about the health system if we now had a website called OurHospitals? Meanwhile, health economist Professor Gavin Mooney says [...]

By Melissa Sweet | Also posted in consumer health information, health reform, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

What can MyHospitals learn from the US experience?

December 16, 2010 – 10:12 am

Continuing the thread of the previous post about the new MyHospitals website, Croakey’s Washington correspondent, Dr Lesley Russell, suggests that we should be learning from similar initiatives in the US. Lesley Russell writes: It’s fascinating to watch the AMA fighting against improvements to patient health and safety at every turn, including the initial attempts at [...]

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What should we make of the MyHospitals website?

December 16, 2010 – 10:00 am

In health policy, it is rare to find an initiative that is universally blessed. This is partly because health policy is frequently about finding the “least worst option”, there being few measures that don’t have some downside. It also reflects the “strife of interests” that so often drown out reasonable intentions. So it’s not surprising [...]

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